I expected readers to assume that my wife owned significant equity in Anthropic; I’ve now edited the post to state this explicitly (and also added a mention of her OpenAI equity, which I should’ve included before and have included in the past). I don’t plan to disclose the exact amount and don’t think this is needed for readers to have sufficient context on my statements here.
I very strongly disagree. There’s a huge difference between $1 billion (Jaan Tallinn money) and many tens of billions (Dustin Moskowitz money or even Elon money). You know this better than anyone. Jaan is a smart guy and can spend his money carefully and well to achieve some cool things, but Dustin can quite literally single-handedly bankroll an entire elite movement across multiple countries. Money is power even if—especially if! - you plan to give it away. The exact amount that Dario and Daniela—and of course you by association—might wind up with here is extremely relevant. If it’s just a billion or two even if Anthropic does very well, fair enough, I wouldn’t expect that to influence your judgment much at all given that you already exercise substantial control over the dispersion of sums many times in excess of that. If it’s tens of billions, this is a very different story and we might reasonable assume that this would in fact colour your opinions concerning Anthropic. Scale matters!
I expected readers to assume that my wife owned significant equity in Anthropic; I’ve now edited the post to state this explicitly (and also added a mention of her OpenAI equity, which I should’ve included before and have included in the past). I don’t plan to disclose the exact amount and don’t think this is needed for readers to have sufficient context on my statements here.
I very strongly disagree. There’s a huge difference between $1 billion (Jaan Tallinn money) and many tens of billions (Dustin Moskowitz money or even Elon money). You know this better than anyone. Jaan is a smart guy and can spend his money carefully and well to achieve some cool things, but Dustin can quite literally single-handedly bankroll an entire elite movement across multiple countries. Money is power even if—especially if! - you plan to give it away. The exact amount that Dario and Daniela—and of course you by association—might wind up with here is extremely relevant. If it’s just a billion or two even if Anthropic does very well, fair enough, I wouldn’t expect that to influence your judgment much at all given that you already exercise substantial control over the dispersion of sums many times in excess of that. If it’s tens of billions, this is a very different story and we might reasonable assume that this would in fact colour your opinions concerning Anthropic. Scale matters!